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China gets tough on unruly flyers
A new civil aviation law proposed by China aims to hit unruly passengers in the pocket with heavy fines.
The Civil Aviation Administration of China has highlighted more than a dozen types of bad behaviour which could trigger fines of up to 50,000 yuan (about $7,515).
It includes using mobile phones in-flight, smoking, forcibly occupying seats, blocking aisles and gates, breaking into airports and planes and assaulting crew members or other workers.
The law also requires all airlines to set up management systems to ‘ensure flight safety and to care for passengers’ interests.
The banning of mobile phones, even in flight mode, has not gone down well with the public, and has sparked a social media backlash.
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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